Bill Self fired off a text message to Cliff Alexander late Thursday night, after the NBA Draft had ended, after the former Kansas forward waited for more than five hours to hear his name on national television.
The wait had lasted deep into the night. Two hours, then three. One round, then into the second half of another. By the time 11 p.m. rolled around, NBA teams had drafted the following players: Arturas Gudaitis, Marcus Eriksson, Satnam Singh Bhamara and Cady Lalanne.
But no Cliff Alexander. Alexander, a former top-five recruit in the high school class of 2014 went undrafted.